lágrima
/ˈla.gɾi.ma/
The verdict
“lágrima” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,808. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,808
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - substância lubrificante produzida pelas glândulas lacrimais do olho, que são vertidas em abundãncia durante o choro
Corpus desk
Index PT-lagrima · lágrima · Portuguese
lágrima · rank #16,808 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,808
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH magoado
Nearest frequency peer: magoado (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “lágrima”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Josué
Josué
83,199 corpus weight
- Levi
Levi
83,196 corpus weight
- lágrima
lágrima
83,193 corpus weight
- magoado
magoado
83,191 corpus weight
- Manager
Manager
83,189 corpus weight
- mané
mané
83,187 corpus weight
What this shows “lágrima” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lágrima |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈla.gɾi.ma/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “lágrima”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around lágrima (IPA /ˈla.gɾi.ma/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,808 among 581 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "substância lubrificante produzida pelas glândulas lacrimais do olho, que são vertidas em abundãncia durante o choro".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lágrima, with forms such as "lgárima", "llágrima", and "lággrima". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lástima", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is lágrima, spelled L-Á-G-R-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1substância lubrificante produzida pelas glândulas lacrimais do olho, que são vertidas em abundãncia durante o choro
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lgárima
- llágrima
- lággrima
- lágirma
- lágriam
- lágrimma
- lágrmia
- lágrrima
- lárgima
- álgrima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lágrima - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lágrima", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).